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Gopher
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 Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:18 pm Post subject: Tehran Now Alleges that We Are Using Squirrels... |
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to spy on them.
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Can Squirrels Spy for People? Iran Thinks So
All Things Considered, July 20, 2007 � Iranian news agencies this week reported the capture of 14 squirrels equipped with espionage systems along the border.
Robert Baer, who worked for the CIA in Iran, intelligence expert James Bamford and wildlife professor John Koprowski, who co-authored the book North American Tree Squirrels, discuss historical attempts to use animals in intelligence gathering and the likelihood that the U.S. or any other country could count on squirrels to retrieve any useful information. |
It is little-known just how talented and dangerous squirrels are. And I for one am glad they have allied themselves with America.
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not glad. You think you can trust them? That's what you think at first but then you wake up at 2am with a set of squirrel teeth in you. Playing with fire.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1432171020070614?feedType=RSS
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BERLIN (Reuters) - An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.
The squirrel first ran into a house in the southern town of Passau, leapt from behind on a 70-year-old woman, and sank its teeth into her hand, a local police spokesman said Thursday.
With the squirrel still hanging from her hand, the woman ran onto the street in panic, where she managed to shake it off.
The animal then entered a building site and jumped on a construction worker, injuring him on the hand and arm, before he managed to fight it off with a measuring pole.
"After that, the squirrel went into the 72-year-old man's garden and massively attacked him on the arms, hand and thigh," the spokesman said. "Then he killed it with his crutch."
The spokesman said experts thought the attack may have been linked to the mating season or because the squirrel was ill.
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The mating season or it was ill, a likely story.  Evil is more like it. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| surely gophers would be better at avoiding detection? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| nuts ! |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| I'm not glad. You think you can trust them? |
More than you could trust gophers, I suspect. |
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